Rail-joint fastening



No. 626,358. Patented June 6, I899. E. L. ARNOLD.

RAIL JOINT FASTENING.

(Application filed Dec. 1, 1898.)

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ELIPHALET LESTER ARNOLD, OF CONROE, TEXAS.

RAIL-JOINT FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 626,358, dated June 6, 1899.

Application filed December 1,1898. Serial No. 697,991. (No model-l To'aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIPHALET LESTER AR- NOLD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Conroe, in the county of lVIont-gomery, State of Texas, have invented a new Improvement in Railroad-Rail-Joint Fastenings, of which the following is a specification.

The object of myinvention is to produce a durable substantial spring nut-lock.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similarletters of reference indicate corresponding parts, and in which- Figure 1 shows a perspective view of the joint when locked. Fig. 2 shows a longitudinal section. Fig. 3 shows locking-plate B;

Referring to the drawings by letters, the detailed parts of the device are as follows: rails A A, such as commonly used on railroads, fish-bars K K, same as ordinarily used onrailroads, through which bars pass bolts 0 C, being ordinary railroad-bolts, but on which are placed undercut nuts D I). Under these nuts and between the nut and the fishplate are held spring-plates E E, made like a buggy-spring, and between the spring and the fish-plate is held hard paper or other packing to deaden the rattle of the rail. On the nuts D D are locking-plates B B, each locking-plate covering two nuts. The locking plate has two oblong holes, one at each end, each hole being one-fourth of an inch longer longitudinally than vertically to allow for expansion and contraction of the rails, and these oblong holes are adapted to pass over such nuts and drop into the undercut of the nuts. 

